Rails Envy

Episode #096. Dan Benjamin (Playgrounder, Hivelogic) is back this week. We each had some background noise and an awkward moment. But it’s funny.

The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by NewRelic. NewRelic provides RPM which is a plugin for rails that allows you to monitor and quickly diagnose problems with your Rails application in real time. Check them out at NewRelic.com.

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Show Notes

• GitHub Discontinues Publishing Gems

  Following the move to Rackspace, Github has decided to stop building gems and instead recommends people move to Jeweler or Gemcutter. Old gems will be served for a year.

• Gem Bundler is the Future

  Nick Quaranto walks through how Gem Bundler is going to work on the Litany Against Fear blog. Gem Bundler is going to be the default gem dependency resolver in Rails 3.

• Ruby Daemons and Angels

  David Palm has posted a tutorial for working with daemon-kit by Kenneth Kalmer. He walks through created a simple daemon with three worker processes and explains what daemon kit is doing each step of the way.

• Completely False: Rails site serving 10 million page views per day

  The High Scalability blog has an article up covering Ravelry, a Rails site serving 10 million requests per day from Rails.

• Advanced Messaging and Routing With AMQP

  Ilya Grigorik posts a walk through of using AMQP for messaging and its benefits.

• CodeRack Competition

  The CodeRack competition is a competition to develop the most useful and top quality Rack middlewares.

  http://coderack.org/
  http://www.rubyinside.com/21-rack-middlewares-2649.html

• Hosted Mongo

  Fred Wilson (AVC) posts about a new hosted Mongo DB service.

• Warp Drive

  Mark Bates, over on the Meta Bates blog, introduces Warp Drive which he describes as “what Rails Engines wish they could be, and more!” A Warp Drive is a standard, full featured, Rails application that you can easily bundle up into a Ruby Gem, and include into another Rails app.

• Cap-recipes

  Nathan Esquenazi has posted some common cap recipes on his GitHub account. There are recipes for Ruby, Passenger, Memcache, DelayedJob and more.

• iPhone app development with Ruby web services

  Justin Leitgeib walks through the architecture for his iPhone app SubwayDelay and outlines how he uses Sinatra and Tokyo Cabinet.

• Web Hooks in Ruby on Rails

  Travis Dunn takes a look at one way of doing Web Hooks in your Rails app.

• What’s New in Edge Rails – 10/12/2009

  Nathan Bibler’s post about what’s new in edge rails.

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